Trickle suffered from undiagnosed pain before suicide

4:42 PM,
May 18, 2013

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Christopher Dabe
Daily Herald Media

Dick Trickle suffered from a pain that doctors could not diagnose before the Wisconsin Rapids native and auto racing legend shot himself Thursday, his obituary said.

"He had been suffering for some time with severe chronic pain, had seen many doctors, none of which could find the source of his pain," read the obituary posted online by the Warlick Funeral Home, in Lincolnton, N.C. "His family as well as all those who knew him, find his death very hard to accept, and though we will hurt from losing him for some time, he's no longer suffering and we take comfort knowing he's with his very special ...